Table 3.

Linear Regression Model of the Factors that Affect Health Literacy^a

Criteria	General HL Index		Disease Prevention and Health Promotion HL Index		Health Care HL Index
	β	p	β	p	β	p
Sex	0.599	< .05	0.525	> .05	0.676	< .05
Age	−0.887	< .001	−0.905	< .001	−0.863	< .001
Education level	2.139	< .001	2.124	< .001	2.154	< .001
Income group	0.919	< .001	0.88	< .001	0.967	< .001
Newspaper as a source of information	1.489	< .05	1.9	< .01	1.071	> .05
Television as a source of information	1.917	< .001	1.786	< .001	2.059	< .001
Internet as a source of information	2.803	< .001	2.883	< .001	2.731	< .001
Smartphone as a source of information	1.974	< .01	2.535	< .001	1.428	< .01
Model intercept	17.710	< .001	16.513	< .001	18.857	< .001

Note: HL = health literacy.

^aThe presence of social security is a variable that is included in the model but has no significant effects.